May 10, 2016 AT 4:46 pm

Actual Things from Space: One Photo of 3 Moons #NASA #Saturn

The image, published in February of this year, was taken in early December, 2015, by a satellite launched in October, 1997. Some things do come to those who wait. Wow!

Three of Saturn’s moons — Tethys, Enceladus and Mimas — are captured in this group photo from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.

Tethys (660 miles or 1,062 kilometers across) appears above the rings, while Enceladus (313 miles or 504 kilometers across) sits just below center. Mimas (246 miles or 396 kilometers across) hangs below and to the left of Enceladus.

This view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 0.4 degrees above the ring plane. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Dec. 3, 2015.

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